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David Alan Butler (born 1952), older son of LaVerne Butler and the lead pastor of CenterPoint Church in [[Concord, New Hampshire|Concord]], [[New Hampshire]], recalls that his father worked many years to help the resurgence succeed. "The theme for his life, and I think this captures him more than anything else, is . . . [[Ephesians]] 4:15: Speaking the truth in love. That's the caption that goes across Dad's life. There was a not a mean spirit in him, but he never compromised his positions. He was synonymous with taking a stand but always speaking the truth in love. That is the big headline of his life."<ref name=foust/>​

David Alan Butler (born 1952), older son of LaVerne Butler and the lead pastor of CenterPoint Church in [[Concord, New Hampshire|Concord]], [[New Hampshire]], recalls that his father worked many years to help the resurgence succeed. "The theme for his life, and I think this captures him more than anything else, is . . . [[Ephesians]] 4:15: Speaking the truth in love. That's the caption that goes across Dad's life. There was a not a mean spirit in him, but he never compromised his positions. He was synonymous with taking a stand but always speaking the truth in love. That is the big headline of his life."<ref name=foust/>​

==Death and legacy==​

==Death and legacy==

 

Services for Butler were held on December 20, 2010, at the Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky, where he had retired and formerly twice served in an interim capacity. He is interred at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville. Butler was twice married. On the death of Lillian Kiser Butler (1929-2004), his wife of fifty-seven years and mother of his three children, he wed the former Shirley Patton (born 1929), who survives him. His children are Sandra B. Hodge (born 1949) of Princeton in Caldwell County in western Kentucky and Richard C. Butler (born 1958), a minister in West Lafayette, Indiana. He had ten grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, and two stepchildren.<ref name=obit/>​

Services for Butler were held on December 20, 2010, at the Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky, where he had retired and formerly twice served in an interim capacity. He is interred at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville. Butler was twice married. On the death of Lillian Kiser Butler (1929-2004), his wife of fifty-seven years and mother of his three children, he wed the former Shirley Patton (born 1929), who survives him. His children are Sandra B. Hodge (born 1949) of Princeton in Caldwell County in western Kentucky and Richard C. Butler (born 1958), a minister in West Lafayette, Indiana. He had ten grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, and two stepchildren.<ref name=obit/>​